Question

Never cut, but mightily changed. Until only recently, it was known as the Hemlock Forest for its shady stands of that graceful conifer, but almost every hemlock here is now dead, slain by a Japanese insect smaller than the period at the end of this sentence, which arrived in New York in the mid-1980s.

Answer 1

D. An insect nearly microscopic in size is responsible for felling a forest of conifers.

Answer 2

The correct answer is: "A: An insect imported from Japan is the cause of the decimation of an entire forest".

The increase in global trade was the cause of the import of these Japanese wood-boring insects, such as the Asian Longhorned Beetle or the Emerald Ash Borer. These insects normally come from overseas inside wood packaging, as it represents an ideal place where they can survive long trips.